Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Each soul is potentially divine.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!